This seemingly bizarre tweet from a No campaign leader in their attempt to prevent the repeal of the anti-women 8th amendment gives a few things away about their ideological mind set. It read "Referendum will repeal our property rights. Ignore the fact the the Goverenment then plans to pass a law nationalising half the […]
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Review: The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was for four decades a leading anarchist thinker and writer. His many articles and books – Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Toward an Ecological Society, The Ecology of Freedom and a host of others – are libertarian classics and influential in the wider green movement.
Threatened & assaulted at Rally for Life as an angry No campaign steps up hateful rhetoric
On Saturday one of our photographers was assaulted and threatened at the ‘No’ campaigns’ anti-choice Rally for Life. He wasn’t injured and although his camera was punched (see video) no damage was done but this is yet another example of how the No campaign, having failed to make any impact in the polls, are becoming […]
100s of Yes posters torn down by organised gang in County Cork
In a pattern all to common across rural Ireland hundreds of Yes posters were torn down in an organised fashion by what had to be No activists across Country Cork last night. This anti-democratic rage typifies the No campaign which has has so much wealth that it is printing 10 No posters to every Yes. […]
Anti-choice groups freak out as google bans referendum ads – what had they planned?
A few hours ago the referendum campaign in Ireland took an unexpected turn when google announced it was banning all referendum based advertising across all its platforms including Youtube. The howls of outrage from the anti-choice No campaign has been going on ever since. This reaction across the No campaigns is telling. For the first […]
Repeal and the online battle – when become a billionaire isn’t an option
Over the last few days the mainstream media in Ireland has finally woken up to the way money from far right US evangelicals is being used to buy the No vote in the referendum campaign. Here we show you how to see how you are being targeted and discuss what this means for the referendum […]
Well that makes no sense – on the anti-choice 1916 beermats
A Few Notes about Anarchist Economics
Anarchism is generally not associated with economics. There is no “Anarchist” school of economics as there are “Marxist,” “Keynesian” and so on ones. This does not mean there are no anarchist texts on economics.
Repealing the 8th – tracking the opinion polls
Over the course of the referendum I wrote several long pieces analysing opinion polls as they appeared in the newspapers to glean useful information about how the campaign for a Yes vote was doing, where we were stong, what weakenesses existed and what tactics this information suggested. I’ve gathered all these pieces together below in […]
Articles on the Turkish invasion of Afrin
This is a collection of four pieces we wrote during the Turkish invasion of Afrin and the two month defence of the tiny canton against NATOs second biggest army. A desperate struggle in which almost 900 SDF fighters were killed by Turkish airpower and military trying to defend the Rojava revolution. These reports were originally […]